Joe Dickens

Education

Equipment

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About me

I am an experienced lighting technician and designer having worked as both Production, Touring and Venue based LX, Board programmer and Lighting Designer on a large number of Theatre Productions and Live Events. I take particular interest in console programming and intelligent fixtures. I also have experience in other technical disciplines including but not limited to Flyman both on Counterweight and Hemp systems, Sound, and Video. I take great pride in my work and enjoy ensuring the highest productions standards are met.
Additional skills:
I am an adept PC and Mac user, having obtained qualifications in Computing and having built and maintained several Windows PC's. I highly familiar with MS Office applications including Excel Word and PowerPoint, and also have some experience of Lighting Design using CAD software such as Vectorworks. I am also competent in the use of QLab, Show Control System (SCS) and Catalyst media software.

Lighting Design Credits include:

Theatre:
Plays:
Misery, Great Expectations, Women on the verge of HRT, Hedda Gabler, Relatively Speaking, Copenhagen, Breaking the Code, Loot, Twelfth Night, Brideshead Revisited, Shadowlands, Abigail's Party, Shirley Valentine, The Importance of being Ernest, Blue Remembered Hills, Breath of Life, , The Arsonists, Of Mice and Men, The Vortex, Season's Greetings, The Changeling, Festen, Danny Champion of the World, The Crucible, Gabriel, Pride and Prejudice
Musicals:
Some Enchanted Evening, Side by Side by Sondheim, Beguiled Again, The Boys from Syracuse, The Power of Ten, Boogie Nights, Company, Sweeney Todd
Live Event:
Auto trader UK Conference, BSAVA Social, WSAVA Social, BYPY Awards, Specsavers Manager's Conference and Dinner, JD Parties, plus numerous uncredited events.

Sound Design Credits:
Lorca Trilogy (The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding and Yerma)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Bedroom Farce

Projection/AV Credits:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Shirley Valentine
Closer
Cleo, Camping, Emanuelle and Dick
Terrorism
The Diary of Anne Frank
Indian Boy
The Changeling

While I do not aim to list every corporate event I have worked on some of the notable events have included:
Conservative Party Conference 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, Labour Party Spring Conference 2009, Government Cabinet Meeting 2009, Liberal Democrats Spring Conference 2010 and main Conference 2011, Audi, Hyundai, Autotrader, BSAVA Congress, AOC Congress, Oracle, Peugeot, Honda, BYPY Awards, AM Awards, Specsavers, Slimming World Oscars, NASUWT, Unite, Superdrug, BMW Frieze Arts, Air Ambulance, GAME, Wolverhampton Wanderers End of Season Dinner 2018, Volvo Ocean Race Cardiff Stopover 2018, Motability Business briefings Roadshow removed

Additional information:
- IPAF 3a/3b trained operator of MEWP access equipment
- Working at height qualified including harness work, tallescope and ladder training
- Qualified PAT Tester (PATSafe and ABTT)
- Temporary Power BS7909 certified
- Robe Lighting service trained
- GrandMA2 Intermediate
- ETC EOS Family Advanced
- Chamsys MagicQ Advanced
- Avolites Titan Advanced

License & Passport

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Electrics Board Programmer
Job Titles	Special Effects (SFX) Artist, Production Support, Sound Operator / Engineer, Gaffer / Lighting Director, Lighting Tech / Operator, Content Producer, Lighting Designer, Electrician, Theatre Technician, Automation / Flying
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	ALD (UK), BECTU (UK)
Work Permits	EU